St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-29
PROBLEMS FOR PIERCE.


He Must Face the Music or
Stand Condemned Before the
People.
Ex-Governor and Editor Pierce took
no notice of the questions which follow
below, in his department last week, all
though they have been propounded to
him at intervals for two or three months,
and were printed together in the GLOBE
two weeks ago. He has plenty of time,
and ample opportunity. Why doesn't
he face the matter in manly way? The
questions are printed again for his con-
sideration. Let the people of Dakota
watch him. Ii he continues to dodge
let him suffer the consequences in pub
lie estimation:
Why do you defend the railroads and
oppose the cause of the people?
Why do you oppose the taxation of
railroads?
IF the railroads own 81 per cent of all
the property in the territory, what rea-
son is there why they should only pay
per cent of all the taxes that are paid?
How much do you receive for OppOS-
ing the Church administration, which is
laboring in behalf of the taxpayers in
Dakota by forcing the big corporations
to bear their share of taxation?
Do you ride on pass when you take
your trips to st. Paul to edit your de-
partment? According to the interstate
commerce law none but employees are
allowed to ride on passes. Are you in
the employ of the Northern Pacific rail-
way that you can ride On a pass?
Why do you defend and uphold the
Yankton trustees?
Did you accept your editorial position
for the salary attached to it, or for the
advantages it offered to boom yourself?
Did you receive $4,000 for the printing
of the little boom pamphlet, "Behold, IL
Show You a Delightsome Land" which
was distributed at the New Orleans ex-
position? If so, what became of the
money? Wasn't the pamphlet compiled
by the auditor at the expense of the ter
ritory?
Why were two reports of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary printed-One at Bis
marck and the other at Sioux Falls?
Did you daily with the Grand Forks
prOfessorship solely with the idea OF
making little capital for yourself, and
with no thought of accepting the posi-
ton?
AS lawyer did you not know when
you appointed Rice attorney general
that he was ineligible, and why did YOU
appoint him?
As a professor of law. did YOU not
know that the code of Dakota prohibits
trustees of public institutions from con-
tracing with themselves, and that the
only way to obey the law, when the
facts were before you, was to ''fire''the
trustees? Did you know that your trus-
tees were violating the law, and did you
not Intentionally ignore the law?
AS profound student of Cooley on.
constitutional limitations, did you not
know that the territory had an indis-
putable case in law on the $4,000 capi-
tai commission warrants, and that on a
perfected appeal the territorial treasury
would be saved that amount inevitably,
tell you so, and did you not, in the face
of this knowledge, order the attorney
general to abandon the appeal and let
the territory be mulcted to that extent?
Did you, or did you not, at the dicta-
ton or by request of the Bismarck
Ring" or by your own motion, use your
personal influence with members, or
leading member of the w. C. L. U. of
Bismarck, with the purpose of discour-
aging efforts then being made to secure
an election in Burleigh county ON local
option this fall?
Did you state and urge, as a reason
why such an election should not be
called, that the holding of such all cleo
upon the question of division, and that
such expression would be inimical to
the interests of Bismarck?
As citizen and elector of Burleigh
county, have you advised and do you
now advise, the calling and holding of
any election whatever in this county
this fall?
Have you advised and co-operated
with the Ring" (of which the Bis
marck Tribune is the organ and mouth
piece, with the intent and design of
preventing the calling OF holding Of any
election in Burleigh county this fall?